Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1887-05-26
LOCAL AND OTHER JOrs.
scraps from b Notebooks Of the
S~enzfneps Reporter.


Yesterdays quotation OF silver. so 94A
A 25.foot shark was caught in Monterey
Bay a day or two ago.
Read Straus' new advertisement under
the head of New To-day"
The G.. A. r. boys are making great
preparation for Decoration Day.
Coun terfeit quarters, dated 1877, are
circulating in Yolo county, Cal.
Butte's bullion shipments last week
were 81 bars, valued at sos. 256.
The excursion down to Diamond next
Sunday only costs 81 for the round trip.
The snow lies from three TO ten feet
| deep in the National Park ON the Yellow.
stone.
Porter Ashe will bring his stable of ia.
nous running horses to the Reno State
Fair.
Wells, Fargo & Co. yesterday shipped
two bars Of passing bullion, valued at
ST., 800.
The Joker is the name of a new paper
published by Alfred Brown at Battle
Mountain.
Paul s. Gordon was dragged to death
by a runaway team in Jordan Valley, Ore
gon, May Is.
The funeral Of Mrs. Hannah Dunkle
will take place at 2 o'clock this afternoon
from her late residence.
Mrs. Mary Deimling, Postmistress at
Virginia City, Montana, has resigned. It
is q thing few Postmasters do.
Nearly every town OF any size In Cali.
fornia has commenced preparation for the
celebration OF the Fourth Of July.
Rev. Joseph R. Hammond, Of the
Methodist Episcopal Church. is expected to
visit Ruby Hill some time this week.
Father Rudy left yesterday for a visit
to Hamilton. Taylor and Phoebe. He
expects to be absent some three weeks.
The Austin Reveille says: The mines at
Ophir Canyon never had better prospects
or had in sight such large bodies of ore.
The Evening Mercury ia the name Of a
new daily With a business-like appearance
published at Coronado Beach, California.
Henry Beatty, IS years old, committed
suicide at C~ahuenga, Los Angeles county,
May IS, by hanging himself to a rafter in
a stable.
Friday. s. Wenban, owner Of the Cortez
mines, shipped seventeen bars of bullion,
valued at 81 400 each, from Beowawe TO
San Francisco.
Bill Hamilton. yesterday on Main
street, while attempting to stop a runaway
team, was knocked down and had one OF
his legs broken.
At Red Bluff, CAL, May 10, a young
man named Wolfe was stabbed in the left
side and leg by Joe Raines. The quarrel
was about a dog.
E. NJ. Baum, at his new hotel at Union
City, is DESTROYS Of employing q first
class second cook and waiter. See adv. in
another column.
Samuel F. Adam, Of Middleton, Con-,
has invented Q watch which ia SO con.
structed that the time may be told by the
blind or in the dark.
A vein OF solid ore six feet in width has
been found near Ouray, Colorado, which
is pure gray copper and brittle silver.
This ore will run at least 81 900 per ton.
Nine. Berhardt complains that Chicago
audiences are cold and unenthusiastic. But
then 1t must be remembered that she
never attended a prize fight in that town.
Thomas Starr King never said q wiser
thing than when he announced as the in
dispensable gospel of ecoLomy-smsller
farms, more labor on them. and q rever-
ence for manure
AT Butte, Montana, Lille Morris, q
vaudeville actress in the Comique Thea
ter, rewarded a physician by calling him
darn fresh " for pumping enough NOR
phine out Of her TO have killed an OK.
Washington has q sensation in a " boy
soprano" about IA years old. 1t is said
that his voice is as pure as that OF q bird
and there 10 no note in the soprano regis
ter that he cannot touch and sustain.
Phillip Richards. the banker, who wal
assaulted at Nevada City, CAL, by I'm
known parties about three weeks ago AND
rendered totally blind, is in a precariouI
condition. and it is thought he cannot re
cover.
There will be a special meeting Of Res
cue Hose Company next Saturday even
ing. for the purpose of making arrange
ments for turning out on Decoration Day
A full attendance of members is re
quested.
Local items OF news should be handed
in when fresh. A paper doesn't like l.
publish the birth Of q child after the chill
10 weaned; a marriage after the honey
moon is over, or the death Of a mae afte!
the widow is married again.
The committee OF the Star Band, VIII
have the matter of sealed proposals Il
hand, regarding the keeping Of the 10
cream stand, lunch counter and frui
stand at their picnic, request us to stat
that ii will be necessary for all those dc
string TO make propositions for the sam
to hand them in by the LIST Of June mex,
as no proposals will be needed after tina
date.
An Epidemic Upon Them.